For project four, we are required to recreate one of our former essays,
transforming into an alternative digital form. When I first knew that we were
going to create a small movie, I became very very nervous, even though the
professor said it was not difficult for several times. The reason is that I
just could not get along well with computers, and I totally had no idea how to
make the pictures moving and put music into the video. Fortunately, the
professor introduced us a very simple and funny program called IMovie. After
playing with it for a short time, I found it really interesting.
I chose to remix the second project which
is mainly talking about the benefits of contact lenses into digital form. The
purpose of this video is to encourage more people to use contact lenses instead
of glasses, and the audiences for the video are those potential users of
contact lenses. First, I used two interesting little video showing the funny
mistakes that caused by the glasses in order to capture the audiences’ attention.
Because most customers of contact lenses are adults (eye doctors encourage
teenagers start using contact lenses after maturation of their eyes), I pick
the love topic to interest audiences. Then, I point out the purpose of my
movie: “Contact lenses can change your life. Please join us!” The most
difficulty and the most time-costing part is interview. It took me a lot of
time to persuade ten of my friends to be the artists of the video and to find
the available time to interview. After completing the interview, I put together
those ten interviews; however, I felt a little boring to hear ten people keep
talking about their experiences of wearing contacts. Therefore, I add a short
funny video which showed a cute puppy. In the movie, I tried my best to be humor
so that I can capture my audiences’ attention at any time.
This is the first time that I expressed
my thoughts through digital form, and I love it! I hope I have chance to di it
again in the future.